Meeting Information
| Date: |
10 June 2008 |
| Time: |
11 AM EDT |
Agenda Items
1. Review of in-person meeting
Jabin reviewed the meeting. There were lots of new faces - half the room were newcomers. He gave a brief overview of the working group activities. He will post the presentation to the wiki. The group talked about the type of pilots. People were curious to know why we weren't out there more - we are being careful to implement just a piece of the use cases. That is why we are focused on the transfer schema. The group decided to write a 2 pager directed to EHR companies telling them if you want to support point of care learning, here are some things that would help and here is an introduction to the work we've been doing on this committee. Peter has contact with Eclipsys and thinks it will be a great entrée to the EHR companies. But he thinks we should get further along in pilots and have proof to show them.
Zal had several good points about point of care learning: you need a cme provider, local registration data, and a content database. We talked about where content comes from when there is a point of care learning opportunity. The group discussed Up to date. We have tried to approach Up to date - Zal said they have a policy against working with others. Matt agreed he had the same experience with them. The two pager would be a way to seed the pilots.
Laird asked what type of people attended. Jabin commented that there was an absence of professional publishers perhaps due to an Oreilly conference that overlapped. Several that would normally have attended did not. Peter was the official scribe and took down everyone's name and affiliation - we will post. Mostly those who attended the working group meeting were from societies, some from government. Valerie commented that the VA may be interested. She will send them an email and invite them to join the committee.
Jabin spoke with Andrew Clubb - he is investigating Point of Care learning for Elsevier. He pointed Andrew to the wiki. Unfortunately Andrew is moving to Singapore after writing the report. Andrew's report will go to Mike Takats who is over first consult and md consult. Laird commeted he has spoken with IMNG group.
2. Implementers update
Laird commented he has a few applications producing records for his providers. He doesn't know that they have done anything to facilitate receipt - they haven't chosen to integrate the information with anything else. He has grants for two new projects using different providers that will give broader experience integrating with different systems. One is within a major medical school. They probably won't have that active until 4th quarter. He is advocating for the schema. All of the people he's worked are new to point of care learning and they are open to the format.
Valerie asked Deborah is she had an update from AAP. Deborah commented that they are finalizing how their point of care learning product will look. A draft plan has been developed and is in review. They are still in the planning phase; launch may be later this year at the earliest. They are focusing on their own materials right now.
3. Next steps
Jabin encouraged the group to keep going with the pilots. It is too early to do the two pager, but that is in the near future.
Valerie commented that the Activity Report Working Group is announcing the project as an ANSI standards development project. Since the point of care learning data is imported by the activity report, it would make sense to announce the point of care learning specification to ANSI as well. Jabin asked what the process would be like. Valerie replied that she would prepare a draft for the working group to consider. Then they will send the announcement to the Executive Committee for approval. After approval, the announcement will go to ANSI and serve as a stake in the ground.
Valerie will prepare a draft announcement and distribute.
4. Open discussion
Valerie encouraged anyone with implementation questions to contact the working group or to contact her directly.
Decisions
The group will prepare a document for EHR companies once the specification has been piloted.
Action Items
Valerie will draft an ANSI announcement and distribute for review.
